Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

accentual accentual-syllabic according action actual appears associated become beginning caesura called century classical closely consider consists conventions couplet critical effect elements English example expect experience expressive feel feet final fixed foot force formal four hand heart heroic iambic illusion imply important initial John kind language largely length less logical look matter meaning measure ment meter metrical musical nature never occur once organization pattern pentameter perhaps permission Petrarchan poem poet poetic poetry position possible practice principle produce prosodic quatrain reader reason regularity rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmical scansion scheme seems sense shape short similar sonnet sort sound speak spondaic spondee stand stanza stanzaic stress structure substitution suggest syllables technical technique tends term tetrameter thing third tion tradition trochaic trochee turn variations varied verse weight whole write written